Tags: Classical Music Composition.
Alexander Scriabin’s Prelude in C major Op. 11 No. 1 was composed in November 1895 in Moscow. Here Scriabin’s virtuosic sustain pedaling assembles clusters of up to seven different diatonic notes in an exquisite sonority that Scriabin himself used to describe as a psychic shift. The whole melody of this prelude consists of 240 eighth-notes being the opening chord of this piece C–D–E–F–G–A with the C-major tonic in the bass.